Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:37:44 -0800 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "Bill Huey (Hui)" <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>, Jack Nielsen <jacknielsen2003@yahoo.com.au>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threads in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20021217063744.GB21287@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <3DFD5C24.2D2B2564@mindspring.com> References: <20021215090538.9378.qmail@web14606.mail.yahoo.com> <3DFD59A4.314F15A5@mindspring.com> <20021216053038.GA9520@gnuppy.monkey.org> <3DFD5C24.2D2B2564@mindspring.com>
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Thus spake Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>: > "Bill Huey (Hui)" wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 08:42:12PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I know what the whitepaper says. Have you read their souce code? > > > They actually implement a frm of scheduler activations. > > > > Where did you get that bit of info BTW ? > > From Sun. > > > why would a 1:1 model need scheduler activations still ? > > Because it's not really a 1:1 model. Do you care to explain what you're talking about? I was talking to some folks in the Solaris kernel group the other week, and they're calling it a 1:1 model. (I haven't seen the code.) Apparently the author is understandably proud of the fact that there are no bug reports against his thread library, as opposed to the M:N library, which was never fixed entirely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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